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Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Katy Clark, President

Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Nufonia Must Fall

BAM Harvey Theater Sep 17—19 at 7:30pm; Sep 20 at 3pm

Running time: one hour, no intermission

Kid Koala The Afiara Quartet Directed by K.K. Barrett

Created by Eric San () Set design by Benjamin Gerlis Puppet design by Clea Minaker, Patrick Martel, Félix Boisvert, Karina Bleau Director of photography AJ Korkidakis Music by Kid Koala Musical direction and string arrangements by Vid Cousins Produced by Ryhna Thompson

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Leadership support for music at BAM provided by Frances Bermanzohn & Alan Roseman. Nufonia Must Fall

One of my fondest memories from childhood was watching Charlie Chaplin films. I remember my whole family, kids, parents AND grandparents, huddled around the screen, smiling and laughing along as the story unfolded. Since those days, something about the silent film format has always struck a chord with me. When I was writing Nufonia Must Fall, I always imagined the book being a kind of paperback silent movie.

I am so thrilled to be working with director K.K. Barrett, who has had a hand in creating some of my favorite movies and many of the most captivating cinematic visuals in the past 15 years. It has been an amazing experience to see the story literally come to life through this amazing team of set design- ers, puppeteers, and performers. Don’t be fooled by its heavy sounding title, Nufonia Must Fall is just a good old fashioned love story and I hope that audiences will have as much fun watching the show as we have had putting it together!

—Kid Koala

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS

Puppeteers Karina Bleau, Félix Boisvert, Clea Minaker

Musicians Kid Koala, The Afiara Quartet—Valerie Li, violin; Timothy Kantor, violin; Eric Wong, viola; Adrian Fung, cello (substituting on cello: Rachel Desoer)

Camera operator AJ Korkidakis Sound engineer Vid Cousins Video editor Ben Knight Technical director & stage manager Olivier Gaudet-Savard Tour manager Patrick Hamou Additional set designer Corinne Merrell Assistant set designers Jeremy Gordoneer, Marie-Pier Fortier Modelmakers Maude-Emelie Bourque, Dan Buller, Clara Gonzalez, Kyle Purves Puppet technical designer Patrick Martel Assistant puppet builders Isabelle Chrétien, Jesse Orr, Christine Plouffe, Veronique Poirier Additional production Patricia Boushel, Colin Mackenzie, Alexandre Gagnon

Adapted for the stage from Kid Koala’s book and soundtrack Nufonia Must Fall.

Produced by Nufonia Live Inc.

Co-commissioned by BAM, Luminato Festival, Adelaide Festival, The Banff Centre, Internationales Sommerfestival Hamburg, Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen, and Roundhouse UK. Photos by AJ Korkidakis Who’s Who

KID KOALA (creator) K.K. BARRETT (director) Kid Koala is a world-renowned scratch DJ, K.K. Barrett is a production designer known for music producer, and award-winning graphic his work on films by highly individual directors. novelist. He has released four solo albums on Born in Omaha, NB, he began his creative path , most recently 12 Bit . He has as a painter, sculptor, and musician. Playing released two graphic novels: Nufonia Must Fall “pleasurable avant noise” music took him to and Space Cadet. He has also been involved in Los Angeles in 1976 and he quickly became collaborations such as , , the drummer and visualist for the Screamers, and . Kid Koala has toured with the likes a synth, piano, vocals, and drums experiment of , , , Money known for wildly popular live shows on both Mark, , , DJ coasts. His first video set design work won MTV Shadow, and Preservation Hall Band. He awards—“Tonight Tonight” with the Smashing has contributed to scores for the films Shaun of Pumpkins and “New Pollution” with Beck. These the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Looper, adventures became serious with Being John and The Great Gatsby. He has composed music Malkovich, Spike Jones’ feature film debut. He for the National Film Board of Canada, Cartoon has been the production designer on all of Jones’ Network, Sesame Street, and . He films, including Where the Wild Things Are, and has also been commissioned to create music the recent Oscar-nominated design for Her. His for runway shows for Belgian fashion designer other design/director collaborations have been Dries Van Noten. Kid Koala’s unforgettable live equally unique—Lost in Translation and Marie shows range from silly touring turntable carnivals Antoinette with Sofia Coppola, Human Nature like Short Attention Span Theater (featuring with Michel Gondry, and I Heart Huckabees with turntable bingo) and Vinyl Vaudeville (including David O. Russell. In 2011 Barrett teamed with puppets and dancers) to quiet-time events like Karen O to create Stop the Virgens, a “psycho Music to Draw to, his Space Cadet Headphone opera,” which combined dance, live music, Experience, and most recently, Nufonia Must Fall projection, sets, and sound design. It sold out live. He lives in with his wife and two two runs at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York daughters. and in 2012 at the Sydney Opera House. This led to collaborating with like-minded artist Kid Koala on Nufonia Must Fall, Koala’s graphic novel, as live theater. Who’s Who

BENJAMIN GERLIS (set design) Salomé, a Canadian Opera Company production Benjamin Gerlis is a set designer for stage and directed by Atom Egoyan, as well as for Tales of screen. He has worked at many of the major Odessa, A So-Called Musical, at Montreal’s Segal UK producing houses, including the National Centre. In 2014 she performed and designed Theatre, English National Opera, Royal Opera, for the Luminato premiere of Nufonia Must Fall. Young Vic, and Royal Court. Projects have taken Minaker’s first full-length solo performance, The him to New York (Metropolitan Opera, American Book of Thel, based on the poem by William Ballet Theatre, Broadway), Montreal (Cirque Blake, was presented in 2013 at Festival du Soleil, Centaur Theatre, Segal Centre), and Artdanthé at Theatre Lachpelle in Montreal. Most the Bregenz Opera Festival in Austria. He works recently she directed The Saint Plays by Erik Ehn extensively in animation, regularly collaborating as artist in residence at Concordia University. with director Mikey Please on award-winning short films, music videos, and commercials. PATRICK MARTEL (puppet design and puppet This year he co-founded Stripeland, a design technical design) collective working across stage, screen, and live Patrick Martel has been working as a puppeteer events. stripeland.co.uk and a puppet and set designer for more than 20 years. His work was seen in many plays, CLEA MINAKER (puppet design) including À nous deux!, with Théâtre de Clea Minaker, a performer, designer, and l’Avant-Pays, for which he was awarded a director, brings the language of contemporary commendation recognizing excellence in puppet puppetry to creations and collaborations in design around the world by the Arlyn Award theater, opera, dance, video, film, live music, Society. He collaborated with Atlanta’s Center installation, and community arts. Trained at for Puppetry Arts, designing the sets, costumes, the International Institute of Puppetry Arts and puppets for the production Don Quixote. (2002—05) in Charleville-Mézières, France, her He created puppets for a number of television poetic original creations, situating clandestine programs (1, 2, 3… Géant!), as well as for manipulation within evolving scenic spaces, variety shows that toured the world. In 2000, striving to produce a total image. Minaker was he started teaching classes at Université du awarded the 2009 Siminovitch Protégé Prize for Québec à Montréal. In 2012 and 2013, he was Theatre Design by Canadian puppeteer Ronnie head of the postgraduate diploma in puppetry at Burkett. In 2007—08 Minaker created and the same institution. He recently designed and performed a shadow puppetry stage show for directed a puppet performance for a multimedia Feist, The Reminder Tour, touring internationally. installation created by Victor Pilon and Michel She has created carte blanche performances Lemieux, due to open in 2017 for Montreal’s with Leslie Feist at the Montreal contemporary 375th anniversary. He is now designing the puppetry festival, Casteliers, with Candas Bas at puppets for a large-scale touring show for Cirque IF! Instanbul Independent Film Festival, at the du Soleil. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and most recently at Hajra Waheed at Art Dubai. In 2013 she created shadow puppetry for Photo: Jørn-Mulder

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FÉLIX BOISVERT (puppet design) KARINA BLEAU (puppet design) Félix Boisvert studied composition at the Since 2001, Karina Bleau has melded sculpture, Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, where film, and puppeteering, resulting in visual he received his master’s degree in 2005. theater which explores matter, light, and the He has worked as a multidisciplinary artist body in motion. She examines our relationship (puppet theater, music, technological arts, and with the world through underlying themes of dance) for the following productions: Concerto life, death, and transmittance, using art to au sol (2014), Lune et l’autre (2009), Pas shed light on the connections between humans à pas (2006), and Manu danse (2005). He and their inhabited spaces. She co-directs an distinguishes himself alternately as a puppeteer, interdisciplinary research space which promotes teacher, musician, and sound artist. His process the in-depth study of marginal artistic practices, stems from a desire to express music in artistic and is dedicated to teaching her art to young forms that defy their nature as sound. For the people. Her work has been shown at home and past few years, he has found fertile ground internationally: Petit nid (2009), Atlantis (2010), for this exploration within puppet theater. He Haïku du dernier souffle (2011), Jean-Claude also teaches music, mainly the Fonofone, an est un homme-Maison (2012), Haïku en trois instrument he helped develop, and with which temps (2012), and Grain dans’ tête (2014). he tours schools across the province of . Her next show, Sacré sucre, will premiere in He has taught more than 1000 workshops to 2016 at the Théâtre les Écuries in Montreal. enthusiasts of all ages. He collaborates with She collaborates with artists whose work resists many artists and companies hailing from the disciplinary boundaries, such as the Inuit circus varied disciplines of circus arts, puppet theater, artist Guillaume Saladin (Artcirq), the circus film, and dance, namely Kid Koala (Nufonia artists Karine Delzors (France/Switzerland) Must Fall), Anthony Venisse (Le concierge), and Jessica Arpin (Switzerland/Quebec), Les minutes complètement cirque (Babel), the electroacoustic artist Félix Boisvert, the Les sept doigts de la main (Patinoire), Nicolas puppeteer Justine Macadouz (France/Quebec), Cantin, Sandy Silva (the percussive dance pieces Théâtre Incliné (Fils Blanc), and the geopoet Do I Know You and App #21), Mathieu Roy Jean Morrisset. She has been recognized for (the Territories exhibition at the Musée de la her innovations in theater, earning a diploma civilisation de Québec), Antonin Monmart (Un in contemporary puppeteering and a master’s ange passe), Karina Bleau (Sacré sucre and degree in theater at the Université du Québec in Haïku du dernier souffle), and Guillaume Saladin Montreal, and received the 2004 international (Artcirq). He co-directs a newly-built creative Arlyne award for puppet design. and experimentation space for the in-depth study of multidisciplinary practices.

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AJ KORKIDAKIS (director of photography) VID COUSINS (musical direction) AJ Korkidakis is a Montreal-based digital Vid Cousins has had the privilege of composing, media artist who jumps between filmmaking, arranging, producing, and recording for some photography, animation, design, and whatever astounding ensembles over the years, notably medium is required. This multi-tasking style Afiara Quartet (Young Canadians Musicians keeps his work fresh and gives him access to a Award winners), (Grammy Award wide range of techniques with which to create winners), (Juno Award winners), rich visual worlds; he prefers to dream up images and the ever-evolving Sevens Project Ensemble first, and then figure out how to create them. whose latest album included members of Arcade His films have played festivals internationally, Fire, Stars, and the Patrick Watson Band. There including TIFF and Just for Laughs, have has been broad acclaim for the works in which won him two awards at the Youngcuts Film Cousins has been involved. These include a Festival, and have been broadcast across North GAMIQ award for Best Electronic Album with Kid America. He is a frequent collaborator with Koala’s “2 Bit Blues,” an IPPY Gold Medal for many noted Montreal musicians on various “Space Cadet,” and an Oscar shortlisting for the video and animation projects. His design work film Requiem for Romance by Jonathan Ng. has ranged from traditional poster design to Cousins utilizes his Monkey Puzzle studio facility creating organizations’ entire visual identities. for his various composition, recording, and mix He illustrated the December 2012 cover of projects. This has also proven to be a great New Internationalist magazine. More recently, environment to produce cinematic remixes for a he has begun to create work with a focus on diverse range of artists, including the Grammy- interaction, be it through physical installations or nominated Beast and Bell Orchestre. Cousin’s digital applications. He explores the blurring lines musical direction and string arrangements for between traditional and new media, and is in Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall have been lauded: his element when working in multi-disciplinary “exquisite sound mixing, composing and top environments that challenge him to learn new class music from the Afiara String Quartet, we skills. As such, Nufonia Must Fall is a perfect rocket from the quiet and sensitive to the intense, home for him. frightening and overwhelming.” (AussieTheatre. com) Who’s Who

THE AFIARA QUARTET Council, and projects with jazz virtuoso Uri The Afiara Quartet, an ensemble for the 21st Caine, Latin Grammy Award-winning producer century, is a string quartet defined by its pursuit Javier Limon, and groundbreaking scratch DJ, of beauty, meaning, and growth as musicians Kid Koala. and ambassadors for its genre. It is a dynamic and award-winning ensemble, described as RYHNA THOMPSON (producer) “a revelation” (La Presse) with performances Ryhna Thompson has been a founder, president, balancing “intensity and commitment” and producer, and artist manager in the cultural “frequent moments of tenderness” (Montreal and creative industries for more than 15 years. Gazette). After residencies at The Juilliard Under the banner of her company Envision School and San Francisco State University, the Management & Production, she has worked Afiara are currently Fellowship Quartet at the with internationally recognized, boundary Royal Conservatory of Music. The ensemble breaking artists rooted in music, such as Kid is winner of the Young Canadian Musicians Koala, Bell Orchestre, and , among Award, Concert Artist Guild, Munich ARD, and many others. Her artists have opened tours for Banff International String Quartet Competitions, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, and , and including the latter’s Szekely Prize for the best performed in venues such as Madison Square interpretation of Beethoven. The Afiara has Garden and Hollywood Bowl. She has assembled performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and and managed tours on five continents and Asia, at such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Zankel overseen dozens of record releases. Thompson and Weill Halls, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully has frequently worked with artists to conceive, Hall at Lincoln Center, Library of Congress in DC, produce, and manage projects in the realm Sao Paulo’s Museum of Modern Art, Pro Musica where music intersects with film, animation, of San Miguel de Allende, London’s Wigmore theater, literature, and interactivity. Projects have Hall, Austria’s Esterhazy Palace, Munich’s Prinz been brought to life with Mass MoCA, Luminato Regenten Theatre, Amsterdam’s Muziekgebouw, Festival, and the National Film Board of Canada, and the Royal Library in Copenhagen. Its to name a few. She served for many years as relentless pursuit of beauty and discovery is president of the Music Managers Forum Canada. documented in more than 25 commissions of Nufonia Must Fall Live is her latest work as a new music, new educational outreach initiatives multi-disciplinary producer, working alongside for school children funded by the Ontario Arts longtime collaborator, Kid Koala.